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Resumen: This study examines how students’ speaking skills can be strengthened by using WordWall as a digital teaching tool in an EFL environment. The interactive elements and gamification components of WordWall provide the opportunity to encourage students to speak. Two groups of students from the Language Center and the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages (PINE) program at the National College of Education participated in this action research study using WordWall games. The study was conducted in four phases in which student engagement and the benefits and limitations of WordWall features were analyzed. The results showed that the key activities in using WordWall in the EFL curriculum provide exceptional, insightful guidelines on how to make the best use of WordWall to develop speaking activities for EFL students, as well as a better understanding of how to motivate students and help them become more competent speakers.Keywords: digital resource, EFL, speaking skill, WordWall

Resumen: The Affective Filter is an influential factor in the development of oral production in EFL. So, in a virtual educational environment, strategies must be applied to reduce student stress and anxiety. This study focuses on the affective filter and the relationship it has with the production of oral activities in a virtual environment. The method applied in this research was descriptivequantitative, to a group of 113 university students of A2 level of English, from the Universidad Nacional de Educación and the Santa Elena Peninsula State University. To collect the information, two structured surveys were employed. The results show that anxiety and self-confidence did not have a direct influence on the performance of oral production; while motivation played an 292 important role in it, leading to the conclusion that the greater the motivation, the greater the oral production.